Sampling-tube for cheese.



No. 662,968. Patented Dec. 4, |900.

H. G. ROTH. SAMPLING TUBE EUR CHEESE.

(Application tiled Aug. 31, 1900.)

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UNITED i STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY G. ROTH, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

SAM PLING-TUBE FOR CHEESE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,968, dated December 4, 1900. p

Application led August 31,1900. Serial No. 28,640. (No modeil To all whom it may concern: Y

Be it known that I, HENRY G. ROTH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sampling-Tubes for Cheese; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My present invention has for its object toprovide an improved sampling oase or tube for cheese, butter, ne. and to this end it con- "sists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in the claims. This sampling case .or tube was especially designed for use in connection with a cheese-cutting device disclosed in the claims in an application for United States Letters Patent, Serial No. 28,639, tiled by me of date August 31, 1900, entitled Cheesecutting' device, but vis nevertheless capable In my said improved cheese-cutting device quite a large hole is necessarily out through the cake. of cheese in o rder to properly position the cake on the centering-tube of the device. I therefore designed my present device to receive and contain ,the cylindrical plug cut from the cheese, with the intention of using the said plug as a sample. Samples of the cheese are required, and in this way a lossof the cheese is obviated and the cake itself need not be cut from time to time when samples Iare required.

` The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout theY several views.

Figure l shows the complete device, prin-V cipally in longitudinal section taken on the axis thereof, some 'parts being shown in, full. Fig. 2 shows theouter end of the device. Fig. 3 is a view of the same parts shown in Fig. 2 looking at the same from an opposite direction. Fig. 4 is a plan view looking at the end of the tube, and Fig. 5 is a transverse section taken on the line :c5 @c5 of Fig. 3.

The numeral l indicates the tubular body of the device, the same being providedatits butt-end with a removable cap 2, shown as screw-threaded thereon.

The numeral 3 indicates a follower which Works within the tube l and is subject to a long coiled spring 4, compressed between the same and the cap 2. At its outer o1' delivery end the tube l is provided with a sliding collar 5,which has a segmental extension 6, that terminates in an inturned segmental stopflange 7. The collar 5 is adjustably held wherever set by a set-screw 8. Pivoted to a lug 9 on the same end of the tube l is acombined lid and knife l0, of disk-like form, having approximately the same diameter as the tube l. This disk 10 is sharpened throughout approximately one-half of its circumference, as indicated at l1, and itis provided with a small handle or finger-piece 12, by means of which it may be moved. When the disk lO is closed, the finger-piece l2 engages undera retaining-hook 13, which holds it against outward lateral movements.

The character z indicates the cylindrical plug of cheese which is to be used asa sample.

To place the plug of cheese within the tube 1, the cap 2, follower 3, and spring 4 are removed, and after the plug has been inserted the said parts are replaced; as shown in Fig. l. The plug of cheese is then put under strain t-o move toward the other end of the tube, and it is pressed against the knife disk or lid l0. The collar 5 is adjusted on the tube l, so as to set the stop-ange 7 the desired distance from the end of the tube to give the required thickness to the sample of cheese to be out. When a section of the plug is to be cut for a sample, the knife-disk is moved into an open position, so as to permit the plug of cheese to be forced outward against the stop-flange 7. Then by the closing movement of the knife-disk a section of the cheese is cut off, and by the same closing movement of the said disk l0 the tube is tightly closed, so that the remainder of the cheese will loe contained within a tightlyclosed case.

This device, while especially designed as a cheese case or sample-tube, may of course be used to contain samples of butter and various other edibles.

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It will also be understood that the device above described is capable of considerable modification within the scope of my invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

1. Asampling-ease for cheese,&c.,comprising the tube 1, the collar 5 adjustable on one end of said tube, and provided with the projecting segment 6 terminating in the stopflange 7, the disk-like knife 10 pivoted at 9 to one side of said tube and serving as a closure for that end of the tube, and a springpressed follower in the other end of said tube, substantially as describedo 2. In a sample-case foroheese, 85e. the com- HENRY Gr. ROTH.

Witnesses:

B. AUGER, H. G. VIoK. 

